2018 Flying Summary

Dec 31, 2018

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I said I was going to leave North America in 2018, but that didn’t happen. For a variety of reasons (many work-related), I had to scrap trips that I had planned. In the end, I was left with another really weak year of travel. Let’s start with the anemic visual, thanks to the Great Circle Mapper.

Miles: 19,406 (37,306 last year)
Segments: 17 (43 last year)
New Aircraft: A321neo
New Airlines: none
New Airports: Charleston
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 and 737-800 (3 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (5 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: a bunch at 2 segments

Yeah, not much to write home about last year, though at least I did get my first neo and logged a new airport.

Happy new year to all!

Brett

74 responses to “2018 Flying Summary”

ChuckMO

Dec 31, 2018 at 5:09 am

Miles: 7,544
Segments: 14
New Aircraft Type: None
Most Common Aircraft Type: 737-700
New Airlines: None
Most Common Airline: Delta (8 Segments)
Most Common Airport: St. Louis
New Airports: ABQ, BIL, DAL*
* I flew thru DAL in 1969 when I was not yet 4 years old, I have no memory of that trip so I counted DAL as new.
Most Common Non-Directional Routes: 4. 1 each STL-DTW, DTW-PWM, PWM-LGA and LGA-STL

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Chicago Chris

Dec 31, 2018 at 5:17 am

Miles: 54,063 (71,923 last year)
Segments: 27 (36 last year)
New Aircraft: A350-900, A330-300, MD-90, 767-300
New Airlines: HX, VS
New Airports: HKG, IAH, MSY, SLC, TPE
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (6)
Most Common Airline: United (15)
Most Common Airport: Los Angeles (5 departures/5 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Several 2 segments

Here’s to more flying in the new year!

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Jason H

Dec 31, 2018 at 5:18 am

Miles: 30,082
Segments: 15
New Aircraft Type: A350
Most Common Aircraft Type: 777/737 (4 each)
New Airlines: Peach
Most Common Airline: Thai/ANA (4 each)
Most Common Airport: BKK/ITM/HND/KIX (4 each)
New Airports: MYJ, CTS (Matsuyama, Sapporo)
Most Common Non-Directional Routes: NGO-BKK, HND-ITM, KIX-CTS, OAK-SEA (2 each)

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Jared

Dec 31, 2018 at 5:21 am

Happy New Year, Cranky!

Miles: 50,354 (58,664 last year)
Segments: 29 (32 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus A380 & Boeing 787-9
New Airlines: None
New Airports: AUS (Austin), SAT (San Antonio), CUN (Cancun)
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700/800 (13 flights)
Most Common Airline: American (12 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (9 departures/8 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX – MIA (6 segments)

New things this past year: I was able to fly premium economy on a BA 787-9 and A380. The upper deck of the A380 was great with the extra space near the window. A380 was LAX – Heathrow and the plane is SO quiet. It doesn’t feel like it is moving so quickly when we took off. Marvel of modern engineering.

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smallmj

Dec 31, 2018 at 5:40 am

Come to Canada this year!

Sadly, your map is much more exciting than mine.

Miles: 0
Segments: 0
New Aircraft Type: None
Most Common Aircraft Type: None
New Airlines: None
Most Common Airport: YHZ* (but only for picking up and dropping off others)
New Airports: None

* I drove past YQM more often, but I actually went to YHZ a couple of times.

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A

Dec 31, 2018 at 5:50 am

Miles: 55,718
Segments: 35
New Aircraft: Airbus A350
New Airlines: Air Busan
New Airports: JAX, ICN, GMP, PUS, CJU
Most Common Aircraft: A321
Most Common Airline: Delta (27 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MSP – BNA

Rather robust year of flying for me. Looking forward to new adventure in 2019.

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bnatraveler

Dec 31, 2018 at 6:07 am

Miles: 202,080
Segments: 176
New Aircraft Type: A350-900
Most Common Aircraft Type: B738 (distance) E175 (segments)
New Airlines: Joon
Most Common Airline: Delta (distance and segments)
Most Common Airport: BNA
New Airports: ADL, MEL
Most Common Route: BNA-LGA (13x)

http://my.flightmemory.com/rcollie

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James Burke

Dec 31, 2018 at 6:10 am

Miles: 12,574
Segments: 16
New Aircraft: 737-Max 8, Piper Navajo
New Airlines: FlyGTA
New Airports: YXU (London Ontario)
Most Common Aircraft: A320 (5)
Most Common Airline: Air Canada (9)
Most Common Airport: Toronto YYZ (6 Arrivals/Departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: YHZ-YYZ (5)
Longest Flight: 2,085 mi (YYZ – YVR)
Shortest Flight: 51 mi (YKF-YTZ)

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Shane

Dec 31, 2018 at 6:22 am

Miles: 73,704
Segments: 29
New Aircraft Type: 787-900
Most Common Aircraft Type: 777 (10)
New Airlines: (none)
Most Common Airline: United (25)
Most Common Airport: DCA (14 D/A), TLV (12 D/A)
New Airports: (none)
Most Common Non-Directional Routes: DCA-EWR, EWR-TLV

Shortest flight: AMM-TLV: 68 miles, 20 minutes

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terminalwander

Dec 31, 2018 at 6:39 am

Miles: 55,221 (68,373 last year)
Segments: 51 (53 last year)
New Aircraft: CR9 (twice),
New Airlines: SAS, Turkish
New Airports: IST, DUS, CPH
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ-700 (11 segments)
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: Washington Dulles (16 departures/ 17 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: IAD-PIT

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Singblue

Dec 31, 2018 at 6:49 am

Miles: 91,222 (52,743 last year)
Segments: 46 (31 last year)
New Aircraft: A321ceo
New Airlines: Air Asia, Malaysian, Scoot, Veuling
New Airports: Bali, Kuala Lumpur, Beirut, Tacloban
Most Common Aircraft: A330-300 and A320-200 (10 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Philippine Airlines (12 segments)
Most Common Airport: Riyadh (16 departures/16 arrivals)

Happy New Year to all!

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SubwayNut

Dec 31, 2018 at 6:50 am

Miles: 17,550 (last year 22,070)
Segments: 17 segments (last year 22)
New Aircraft Type: None
New Airlines: None
New Airports: SFB – Orlando/Sanford
Most Common Aircraft Type: Tie 3 segments each – A320, CRJ200, ERJ145
Most Common Airline: Delta (7 segments)
Most Common Airport: SBN (4 arrivals, 5 departures)
Most Common Non-Directional Routing: SBN-SFB and SBN-EWR (3 segments each, SBN-EWR non-stop is about to be discontinued next weekend)

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TULERJ145

Dec 31, 2018 at 6:51 am

Miles: 43,590
Segments: 25
New Aircraft Types: 767-400, EMB-135, A340-600, A380-800
Most Common Aircraft Type: A340-600 (distance) 737 (segments)
New Airlines: Air Astana, Frontier, Lufthansa, JetBlue, Malawaian Airlines, South African Airways
Most Common Airline: Southwest (7 segments), South African (distance)
Most Common Airport: TUL (4 departures, 4 arrivals)
New Airports: JNB,BLZ,LLW,IAH,FRA,ALA,TSE,ZRH,IAD
Most Common Routes: TUL-DAL,TUL-IAH,TUL-MCO (2x each)

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Alex Hill

Dec 31, 2018 at 7:04 am

Miles: 46,153
Segments: 43
New airports: YYF (Penticton BC), YVR, CXU (Vancouver Harbour), YHJ (Victoria Harbour), YYJ, HND, KMI (Miyazaki Japan), YUL
New aircraft: Twin Otter (!)
New airlines: Harbour Air, ANA
Most common non-directional route: YLW-SEA (10 times)
Most common airport: SEA (12 times, mostly connections, counting a connection as one visit)
Most common O&D airport: YLW (10 times)
Most common aircraft: Dash-8 Q300/400 (20 times, 14 on the Q400)
Most common airline: AS/QX (23 segments)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=PDX-SEA-YLW;YYF-YVR-SEA-DCA-SEA-YLW;CXH-YWH;YYJ-YVR-YLW;YYF-YVR-YYJ-SEA-LAX-HND-KMI-HND-YVR-YYF;YLW-SEA-KOA-SEA-YLW-SEA-BOS-SEA-YLW-SEA-OAK-SEA-YLW;YYF-YVR-YUL-CDG-EDI-CDG;AMS-LHR-YVR-YYF;YLW-SEA-SAN-SEA-YLW

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Ron

Dec 31, 2018 at 7:09 am

Miles: 32,434 (last year: 18,359)
Segments: 12 (11)
New Aircraft: 737-900
New Airlines: All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines
New Airports: Tokyo Haneda (HND), Miyazaki (KMI), Seattle (SEA), Puerto Vallarta (PVR)
Most Common Aircraft: 777-200 (4 segments) [a total of six 737, but varying subtypes]
Most Common Airline: Delta (4 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (4 departures, 3 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional route: LAX-HND, HND-KMI, LAX-PVR (2 segments each)

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ted

Dec 31, 2018 at 7:18 am

Miles: 57,100
Segments: 24
New Aircraft: na
New Airlines: China Eastern
New Airports: OGG, PVG, HND,
Most Common Aircraft: 777
Most Common Airline: AA (11 segments)
Most Common Airport: MSP
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MSP – DFW
Shortest Flight: MSP-ORD 334 miles
Longest Flight: BOS-HKG 7,970 miles

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Chris in BZN

Dec 31, 2018 at 7:23 am

Miles: 63,453
Segments: 72
New Aircraft Type: 787-9
Most Common Aircraft Type: 737-800 (the Delta workhorse)
New Airlines: Vueling, Norwegian, Iberia, Air France
Most Common Airline: Delta (64 of 72)
Most Common Airport: BZN
New Airports: BCN, GRX, PMI, MAD, MXP, DUS, PEK
Most Common Route: BZN-SLC (18)
Most Unusual Route: SLC-MSO-BZN (diversion to Missoula)

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CrankyDavid

Dec 31, 2018 at 7:36 am

Map: https://goo.gl/8p5Xax

Miles: 45,651 (65,399 last year)
Segments: 32 (38 last year)
New Aircraft: A350-900, A350-1000, Xian MA-60
New Airlines: Lao Skyway, LOT, Silk Air
New Airports: BUD, DAC, LPQ, VTE, WAW
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 and 737-800 (7 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Southwest (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: BNA (7 departures/7 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: a bunch at 2 segments

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CP

Dec 31, 2018 at 7:49 am

Miles: 194,169 (183,373 last year)
Segments: 174 (165 last year)
New Aircraft: Boeing 737-MAX8, Boeing 787-9
New Airlines: Condor
New Airports: Louisville (SDF), Frankfurt (FRA), Stockholm (ARN), Oslo (OSL)
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737-8
Most Common Airline: American
Most Common Airport: Chicago-O’Hare (ORD) (
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Chicago-O’Hare (ORD)-Washington National (DCA) (32 segments)
New Routes: LHR-MIA, SEA-LHR, SEA-FRA, FRA-OSL, OSL-CPH, LHR-ARN, ARN-ORD, DCA-SDF, SDF-ORD, PHX-MCO, MIA-MCO, CMH-ORD, SLC-PDX, MCO-DTW

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Tim Dunn

Dec 31, 2018 at 7:58 am

100,010 miles (comparable to last year)
15 cities in N. America
6 cities in Latin America
2 cities in Europe
2 cities in Asia

New plane: 737 MAX 8

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David

Dec 31, 2018 at 8:17 am

Still trying to chase after everything in Europe… need to find AirNerd-aholics :-)

Miles: 108,082 (96,047 last year)
Segments: 169 (144 last year)
New Aircraft: Agusta Westland 169, Airbus 350, Antonov 24, Antonov 140, Beechcraft King Air 350, Boeing 787, Bombardier CRJ 700, Bombardier CS 100, Cessna Citation II, Eurocopter EC135, Piper PA-31, Quest Kodiak, Sukhoi Superjet 100
New Airlines: Aer Arann Islands, Air Corsica, Air Europa Express, Airlinair, Airwing, Anisec, APG Airlines, AtlasGlobal Ukraine, Belavia, Bulgaria Air, Charlie Airlines, Edelweiss Air, El Teu Soci Aeri, Evelop Airlines, FlyCompass Service, GetJet, Icelandair, Isles of Scilly Skybus, IZair, Joon, LATAM Airline Chile, Laudamotion, Lease Fly, Lyddair, Motor Sich Airlines, Nordica, Orange2Fly, Oya Vendee Helicoptere, People’s Viennaline, Primera Air Scandinavia, PrivatAir, Private Wings, Privateways, RAF-Avia, Royal Air Maroc, SAS Ireland, SHS Antwerp Aviation, Sichuan Airlines, Small Planet Airlines Poland, SmartLynx, Specialist Aviation Services, Star East Airlines, Sundair, SunExpress, Tayaran Jet, TUI Nordic, Twin Jet, VLM Airlines Slovenia, Volotea, Windrose Airlines, Wizz Air UK, WOW Air, Zimex Aviation
New Airports: Aarhus Sea Airport, Agen, Ankara, Braunschweig, Brest, Cagliari, Chernivtsi, Chester, Connemara, Copenhagen Waterdrome, Dakhla, Debrecen, Figari, Fromentin, Grosseto, Ile d’Yeu, Ingolstadt, Inisheer, Inishmaan, Ivalo, Izmir, Kiev-Zhuliany, Kuusamo, Lands End, Lannion, Lappeenranta, Le Havre, Le Touquet, Lille, Lydd, Minsk, Mora, Namsos, Oradea, Orland, Pardubice, Perigueux, Plovdiv, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Rhodes, Savonlinna, Scilly Isles-St Mary’s, Seu d’Urgell, Sofia, St Gallen, St Peter-Ording, Stockholm Bromma, Stord, Suceava, Sylt, Tours, Trondheim, Wilhelmshaven, Zaporizhia
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737 (56 flights)
Most Common Airline: Ryanair (35 flights)
Most Common Airport: London-Stansted (19 departures / 21 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Paris CDG – Luton (4 flights)

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1. Nils
  
  Jan 9, 2019 at 11:10 am
  
  Well, it seems that I was not the only one flying to Mora in 2018 just for the airports sake :D
  
  Congratulations to Grosetto! I missed that opportunity unfortunately. But where the hell is Fromentin?
  
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  1. David
    
    Dec 29, 2019 at 1:05 pm
    
    Should have been Frometine instead of Fromentin. Small heliport a little to the south of Nantes in France – Oya Vendee Helicoptere operate a helicopter service to the Ile d’Yeu
    
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BoudreauSean312

Dec 31, 2018 at 8:21 am

Happy New Year Cranky!

Managed to hold on to 1K this year (Just barely) due to a change in my territory (shrunk). 2019 will be a record year for me as my territory has just changed (expanded) again. With the new 1K requirements I should still hit it.

I use JetLovers to track all of my travel, if anyone is looking for such an app/website – this is my favorite. I use Swarm (AKA 4Square and just check in at each airport and it loads your flight and tracks everything for you. You can get as detailed as you like and later go in and add Flight #, Airline, Class, Seat, ETC.). They don’t have a formal app, but I saved it from Safari on my home screen so it functions just like a web-based app. It’s the best one I know.

Here’s a link to my profile: https://www.jetlovers.com/profile/4798/#_=_

Here are my stats for 2018. I added a few more just for S&G’s.

Miles: 107,204 (117,697 last year)
Segments: 96 (97 last year – hilarious!)
New Aircraft: 777-3ER, 787-9, 737 Max 9
New Airlines: None (Every flight this year was on United with the exception of flying AirAsia X from SIN-HKT R/T – second time flying them – very efficient operation)
New Airports: SIN, MFE, STL, AUS, MSY
Most Common Aircraft: Easily 737-8/9 and A319/320
Most Common Airline: United (94 segments)
Most Common Airport: Chicago O’Hare
Most Common Non-Directional Route: a bunch at 2 segments
*Longest Flight: SFO-SIN (Amazing trip on the 787-9)
*Shortest Flight: ORD-STL (Still beats driving)
*Heaviest Travel Month: September
*Heaviest Travel Day: June 15-16 – Mileage run :-D (MSP-SFO-DEN-SFO-BOS-ORD-AUS). SFO-DEN and back was just to fly in Polaris on the new 777-300ER since we’ll never see that aircraft or a Dreamliner out of ORD (But, I digress – does this bother anyone else from ORD?)

Happy New Year!

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1. Alex Hill
  
  Dec 31, 2018 at 11:21 pm
  
  96 segments without doing any more than twice? That’s impressive!
  
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  1. BoudreauSean312
    
    Jan 2, 2019 at 11:51 am
    
    Every year I get confused with the “non-directional” thing. I definitely flew most route more than twice.. LOL.
    
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Dan

Dec 31, 2018 at 8:32 am

Miles: 23,469 (19,807 last year)
Segments: 11 (14 last year) 1 segment canceled due to Ryanair strike in Italy
New Aircraft: 787-9
New Airlines: Norwegian Air Shuttle, Air Canada (Mainline, Rouge & Express), British Airways, jetBlue
New Airports: LGW, YYZ, BCN, YUL, LHR
Most Common Aircraft: 787-9 (3 segments)
Most Common Airline: Air Canada and British Airways (4 segments each)
Most Common Airport: Boston (3 departures/3 arrivals) London Gatwick (2 departures/2 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: BOS-LGW (2 segments)

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1. Dan
  
  Dec 31, 2018 at 8:33 am
  
  Correction: Also for got the A380 on BA!
  
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USBusinessTraveller

Dec 31, 2018 at 8:35 am

Happy New Year!.

Miles: 109,098
Segments: 59
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: Singapore Airlines
New Airports: Honolulu, Singapore
Most Common Aircraft: 737-900
Most Common Airline: United (55 segments)
Most Common Airport: Portland (14 departures/14 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: PDX-SFO (12)

Longest Flight: SFO-SIN (8444 miles)
Shortest Flight: EWR-BOS (200 miles)

GCMap summary – https://bit.ly/2RsCbDC

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1. USBusinessTraveller
  
  Dec 31, 2018 at 7:14 pm
  
  Btw –
  
  Strangest experience: Yesterday evening (12/30, around 6pm) having the ORD Polaris Lounge all to myself!
  
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DesertGhost

Dec 31, 2018 at 8:41 am

I hope 2019 is a good year for you.

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ZuluLima

Dec 31, 2018 at 8:51 am

Miles: 19,983
Segments: 10
New Aircraft: A380, Dash 8-300, SA227, F100, 747-400ER
New Airlines: Qantas, Eastern Australia, FlyCorporate, Jetstar, Alliance, Virgin Australia, Sunstate
New Airports: SYD, MRZ, BNE, ASP, ADL, MEL, CBR
Most Common Aircraft: F100 (2x)
Most Common Airline: Qantas, Alliance (2x)
Most Common Airport: SYD (2A/3D)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: N/A
New Countries/Continents: Australia

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Douglas Swalen

Dec 31, 2018 at 9:36 am

This year I did the most flying ever…nothing like what you guys do but for me it was a lot. Beat out 2009 and 2011 by 1,000 miles.

Miles: 34,375
Segments: 16
New Aircraft: 737 MAX
New Airlines: Air Canada, Cebu Pacific
New Airports, MNL (Yes, it’s as bad as they say it is. Worst major airport in Asia hands down), DGT, YUL, IAH
Most Common Airline: United (8 segments)
Most Common Airport: SFO (8 departures/8 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SFO-LAX (4 segments)

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1. Andy
  
  Dec 31, 2018 at 10:21 am
  
  How was Cebu Pacific? They may be an option for part of a trip I’m planning in Spring 2019.
  
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  1. Douglas Swalen
    
    Jan 2, 2019 at 7:34 am
    
    It’s an LCC, which is bad. And it’s an Asian LCC which is worse than being just an LCC. I flew them because that part of the trip had been pre-arranged…otherwise I would have preferred to fly Philippine Airlines.
    
    I arrived at MNL, having overnighted after landing from Taipei the previous day, at least three hours early. The line to check in took an hour to get through. They announced a gate change five minutes before boarding and mine wasn’t the only gate change…I must have heard four others announced before it happened to me. The seats were slimline. There was advertising on the overhead compartments. Everything was for sale…even the water.
    
    I had to repack my carry on to make it smaller out of a fear that they’d force me to check it (normally I take my rollerboard on the plane with me but that’s impossible to do with Cebu unless you pay for it). You have to make sure you have your baggage allowance paid for. The resort did that for me but you’d have to do it.
    
    If this is what Asian LCC flying is like, consider me not a fan. I suspect Air Asia is probably better but I’ve never flown them (and don’t intend to if I can help it)
    
    The only thing I won’t fault Cebu for is the fog in the cabin prior to take off. I’d never seen that phenomenon before flying in the South Pacific but I have read about it happening occasionally in the the more humidity challenged parts of the U.S. It was weird. It looked like we were being gassed.
    
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Andy

Dec 31, 2018 at 9:40 am

Miles: 64,614 (66,589 last year)
Segments: 55 (70 last year)
New Aircraft: 777-200, 777-300, DHC Turbo Otter*
New Airlines: Virgin Australia (VA), Porter (PD), Harbour Air (H3)*
New Airports: Sydney (SYD), Detroit (DTW), Toronto Bishop (YTZ), Vancouver Coal Harbour (CXH)*, Victoria Harbour (YWH), Victoria International (YYJ), Portland (PDX)
Most Common Aircraft: MD-88 (13 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Delta (41 segments)
Most Common Airport: MSY (15 departures/18 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: MSY-ATL (17 segments)

*In 2013 I did a sightseeing flight out of CXH on a Harbour Air DHC Turbo Otter, but this year was my first trip on a scheduled service with them

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Carl Anderson

Dec 31, 2018 at 9:46 am

Miles: 60, 523 (62, 072 last year)
Segments: 54 (61 last year)
New Aircraft: B789, B77W, P750XL
New Airlines: none
New Airports: YUL, TUS
Most Common Aircraft: E175
Most Common Airline: Delta (37 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (17 A/D)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-IAH
Shortest Flight – KOCN – Jumped out at 13,000 feet.

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1. Carl Anderson
  
  Dec 31, 2018 at 9:58 am
  
  oh and KOCN was a new airport too.
  
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Al Bonowitz

Dec 31, 2018 at 11:00 am

Miles: 42,510 (26,556 in 2017)
Segments: 27
New Aircraft: 340-300, 787-9
New Airlines: Air Tahiti Nui, Air Canada
New Airports: PPT, YYZ
Most Common Aircraft: A319 (4 segments)
Most Common Airline: United (17 segments)
Most Common Airport: LAX (8 departures/8 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: LAX-ORD (4 segments)
Longest Segment: LAX-PPT (4,294 miles)
Shortest Segment: ORD-CMH (311 miles)

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LT_DT

Dec 31, 2018 at 11:09 am

Miles: 44,835 (49,090 last year)
Segments: 47
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: none
New Airports: ABQ, EWR
Most Common Aircraft: 737
Most Common Airline: United (all flights – first time in ~20 years that all my flights have been on one airline)
Most Common Airport: IAH
Most Common Non-Directional Route: IAH-DC (combo of IAD and DCA)

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boltzr

Dec 31, 2018 at 11:28 am

Butt in Seat Miles:
18,679 miles (18,639 ly)

Segments:
28 (30 ly)

New Airlines:
Go Jet Airlines
PSA Airlines

New Airports:
Charlotte
Ketchikan
Dulles

Most Common Aircraft Type:
Boeing 737-800 (includes std and ER)

Most Common Airline:
Alaska Airlines

Most Common Non-Directional Route:
Tied
SLC – DEN x4
SLC – SEA x4

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Luiz

Dec 31, 2018 at 11:56 am

Happy new year! A 20,000 mile trip to Australia saved my year…

Miles: 39,491 (23,635 last year)
Segments: 41 (37 last year)
New Aircraft: 787-800
New Airlines: Copa, Qantas
New Airports: AKL, BNE, SYD, MEL, PTY, CTG, JPA, TXF, XAP
Most Common Aircraft: 737 (15 segments)
Most Common Airline: LATAM (14 segments)
Most Common Airport: Belo Horizonte (CNF) (13 departures / 13 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: CNF-SDU (4)
Longest Flight: MEL-SCL (7,018 mi miles)
Shortest Flight: CNF-GIG (224 miles)

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ktenorman

Dec 31, 2018 at 12:01 pm

Decent year for me. Happy New Year everyone!

Miles: 45,960 (43,679 last year)
Segments: 43 (41 last year)
New Aircraft: A321neo
New Airlines: GOL, Azul, LATAM Brasil, Southwest (thanks for nixing the peanuts!)
New Airports: Gunnison, Montrose, Redmond, Albuquerque, Newark, Fort Lauderdale
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 and 737-800 (17 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska/Virgin America (13 segments)
Most Common Airport: San Francisco (22 departures/arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SFO-DEN 3x, SFO-LAX 3x

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Paul

Dec 31, 2018 at 1:14 pm

Miles: 235.375 (263,053 last year)
Segments: 73 (93 last year)
New Aircraft: B737-8Max, B787-10
New Airlines: LOT
New Airports: MXP (Milan), FLR (Florence), WAW (Warsaw)
Most Common Airline: Singapore Airlines (40 segments)
Most Common Airport: Singapore Changi (23 departures, 24 arrivals)

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Chris

Dec 31, 2018 at 1:58 pm

Miles: 33,950
Segments: 25
New Aircraft: 737 MAX 9, 777-300
New Airlines: None
New Airports: Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) & Chicago Midway (MDW)
Most Common Aircraft: A-320, 737-800
Most Common Airline: United (23 segments)
Most Common Airport: Tampa (TPA)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: TPA-IAH, SRQ-ORD

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1. Chris
  
  Dec 31, 2018 at 2:04 pm
  
  And an added bonus of clearing into United Polaris on the 777-300, FRA-IAD only to go down with the Norovirus around Ireland and emerging from the lav around Montreal. Good times…my family said Polaris was very nice!
  
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David Sconzert

Dec 31, 2018 at 2:09 pm

Miles: 53,067 (30,299 last year)
Segments: 110 (60 last year)
New Aircraft: None
New Airlines: United (first time in about 20 years, Delta re-booked me on United due to weather issues in DTW)
New Airports: BIL (Billings, MT) and XNA (Northwest Arkansas)
Most Common Aircraft: CRJ900 (36 flights)
Most Common Airline: Delta (108 segments)
Most Common Airport: Green Bay (26 departures/25 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: GRB-DTW (11 segments) and GRB-MSP (10 segments)

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southbay flier

Dec 31, 2018 at 2:22 pm

Miles ~ 67,000 (up from 55k last year)
Segments – 74
New Aircraft Type – None
Most Common Aircraft Type – E175
New Airlines – None
Most Common Airline – Delta (100% of travel)
Most Common Airport – SEA
New Airports – None
Most Common Non-Directional Routes – SJC – SEA

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davidrosen

Dec 31, 2018 at 4:51 pm

Here’s my 2018.

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MeanMeosh

Dec 31, 2018 at 9:56 pm

Miles: 45,737
Segments: 27
New aircraft: B767-400, A350-900
New airlines: Brussels Airlines, Joon, KLM, Scandinavian
New airports: ARN, BMA (Stockholm Bromma), BRU
Most Common Aircraft: Boeing 737 (9 segments)
Most Common Airline: WN (9 segments)
Most Common Airport: DFW (4 departures, 4 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: DFW-LAX (2 segments); every other segment was unique

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Al

Dec 31, 2018 at 10:38 pm

Miles: 91768 (93817 last year)
Segments: 22 (25 last year)
New Aircraft: Airbus A330-200
New Airlines: none
New Airports: none
Most Common Aircraft: 787-9
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: SFO
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SYD to SFO

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haolenate

Jan 1, 2019 at 12:46 am

Glad TripIt keeps some of these stats.

Miles: 243,639
Segments: 116
New Aircraft: B747-800i, B737-Max8 (2 days ago), A321Neo
New Airlines: Edelwiess, Harris Air, Iberia, AC Jazz
Most common aircraft: 737-800 (Alaska, Copa)
Most Common Airline: Alaska
Most common airport: Juneau
New Airports: Madrid, Dubrovnik
Most common route: Juneau-Seattle

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Johosofat

Jan 1, 2019 at 10:04 am

Miles: 99,958 (120,161 last year)
Segments: 117 (282 last year)
New Aircraft: Embraer Phenom 100, Boeing 727-200, Sabreliner 65, Shorts C-23 Sherpa, Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 4000, Boeing 737 MAX 8, Boeing 737-200, Embraer ERJ-140, PAC 750, Flight Design CTLS, Cameron Balloons A-250, Agusta A109, Ford 4-AT Trimotor, Bell 47G, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Viking DHC-6-400 Twin Otter, Lisunov Li-2, Airbus A321-100, Polikarpov Po-2, Ilyushin Il-96, Learjet 40, Boeing 727-100
New Airlines: Elite Airways/Cal Jet, JetSuite, Everts Air Cargo/Zero G, Mesa Airlines, Westjet Encore, Air Inuit, Loganair, Cubana, California Pacific Airlines
New Airports: Carlsbad, Livermore, Spirit of St. Louis, Belleville/St. Louis MidAmerica, Coolidge (AZ), Eloy (AZ), San Diego-Montgomery Field, Providence, Raleigh/Durham, Greensboro, La Grande (QC), Charlottesville, Oceanside, Cottonwood (AZ), Grand Canyon West, Seligman (AZ), Port Allen (HI), Oshkosh, Oshkosh-Pioneer Airport, Appleton, Bismarck, Jersey, Tiree, Glasgow, Buadoers, Budapest, Santiago de Cuba, Havana, Tijuana, Le Bourget, Stockton, San Carlos, Gibraltar, Bagdad (AZ)
Most Common Aircraft: Private – Flight Design CTLS (17 flights), Airline – A319 (14 flights)
Most Common Airline: American (13 flights)
Most Common Airport: Boston (11 departures/9 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: Flagstaff-Phoenix (5 flights)

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Anthony

Jan 1, 2019 at 11:15 am

Wow.

Some Cranky correspondents did more flying in 2018 than I’ve done in a lifetime…

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1. haolenate
  
  Jan 1, 2019 at 1:11 pm
  
  The movie Up In The Air really could be a true story!!!
  
  My travels have me away from home for 3 weeks at a time, sometimes 4. TripIt says I was away from home for 327 days – it wasn’t nearly that much, but probably not too far off. And I’m not flight crew, I’d be home more if I was!
  
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Henning

Jan 1, 2019 at 12:26 pm

Miles: 26,041 (20,315 last year)
Segments: 18 (18 last year)
New Aircraft: B787-9 (VN)
New Airlines: Wizz (W6), Germania (ST), Aegean (A3), Vietnam (VN)
New Airports: BUD, NUE, LPA, SKG, DUB, SGN, HUI, HAN, BKK
Most Common Aircraft: A321-200 (11 segments)
Most Common Airline: Turkish (TK) (6 segments)
Most Common Airport: FRA (4 departures/6 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: FRA-IST (4 segments)

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juhanh

Jan 1, 2019 at 1:49 pm

Miles: 250000-ish
Segments: 65ish
New Aircraft: none
New Airlines: LATAM, EgyptAir, Singapore Airlines
New Airports: Santiago, Punta Arenas, Puerto Montt, Mataveri/Easter Island, Calama, Cairo, Sharm-el-Sheikh
Most Common Aircraft: A380-800 (10+ segments)
Most Common Airline: Finnair (most probably)
Most Common Airport: SYD (10+ D/A)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: SYD-SIN

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Ben

Jan 1, 2019 at 2:12 pm

Miles: 475,662
Segments: 423
New Aircraft: A350, A380, B737MAX
New Airlines: AF, CX, EK, QK, WE, TO, WS
New Airports: BDL, BOG, CDG, CNX, DXB, GUA HKG, HKT, SAL
Most Common Aircraft: A320 – 181 flights
Most Common Airline: Spirit – 388 flights
Most Common Airport: ORD – 187 flights
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ORD-LAX – 17 times

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MK03

Jan 1, 2019 at 3:35 pm

Really weak year for me, but eh:

Miles: 2,367 (~3809.32 km)
Segments: 4
New Aircraft Type: B777-300, B787-9
Most Common Aircraft Type: A330-300
New Airlines: ANA
Most Common Airline: Philippine Airlines, ANA (2 segments each)
New Airports: CTS

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grichard

Jan 1, 2019 at 5:59 pm

Miles: 49,373
Segments: 42
New Aircraft: A350-900
New Airlines: none
New Airports: PEK, CLE, RIC, ORF
Most Common Aircraft: Gotta be the B737
Most Common Non-Directional Route: STL-ATL, 7x
Longest segment: DTW-PEK, 7632 mi
Shortest scheduled segment: SEA-BLI, 107 mi
Shortest segment: KTN-Winstanley Lake, 32 mi

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Es out of SEA

Jan 2, 2019 at 12:43 am

Miles: 66,366
Segments: 75
New Aircraft: Pilatus PC-12
New Airlines: California Pacific, JetBlue, Boutique Air, Contour Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Easyjet,
Transavia, Mokulele, JetSuite X
New Airports: SMF, STS, FAT, SJC, MRY, MCE, CCR, IPL, SBA, HDN, COS, BOI, EUG, RDM, LWS, LGW,
LIN, MXP, KTW, CEC, OTH, ACV, ICT, SLN, HYS, ABE, AVP, PQI, PWM, ISP, BTV, PBG,
FAY, ILM, PBI, EYW, MIA, FLL, BFL, YUM, CLD, RNO, TUS, MMH
Most common aircraft: 737-900
Most common airline: Alaska
Most common airport: SEA
Longest flight: AMS-DFW
Shortest flight: COS-DEN
Other: tech stop for fuel at MTY from CUN-YVR, go-around at MFR, diversion from SUN to BOI, cancelled from MMH-LAX

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Bobber

Jan 2, 2019 at 6:12 am

Happy New Year. Just managed to sneak in another LHR-EWR over New Year (with a very generous bump up to Polaris last night);

Miles: 63,257
Segments: 27
New Aircraft: 737-800, 737-MAX, 773ER
New Airlines: Tui
New Airports: Nashville
Most Common Aircraft: 772, 757
Most Common Airline: United (19)
Most Common Airport: Heathrow

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Carter

Jan 2, 2019 at 7:07 am

Miles:15,089
Segments: 19
New Aircraft Types: NA
Most Common Aircraft Type: a320
New Airlines: JetBlue
Most Common Airline: United
Most Common Airport: MSN
New Airports: SLC, LAX, ATL, OAJ, LAS, JFK
Most Common Routes: LAS-MSN

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wes

Jan 2, 2019 at 7:13 am

Miles: no clue
Segments: see above
New Aircraft Types: Cessna Caravan, ATR-72-600
Most Common Aircraft Type: ERJ-145
New Airlines: Mokulele, BahamasAir, Alitalia, Fiji Airways, Silver Airways, EasyJet
Most Common Airline: AA
Most Common Airport: TLH
New Airports: MKK, FPO, NAN, FCO, MHH, CMH
Most Common Non-Directional Route: TLH-MIA

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1. wes
  
  Jan 2, 2019 at 7:15 am
  
  ooops forgot one new airline: Sun Country
  
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Douglas Swalen

Jan 2, 2019 at 7:33 am

It’s an LCC, which is bad. And it’s an Asian LCC which is worse than being just an LCC. I flew them because that part of the trip had been pre-arranged…otherwise I would have preferred to fly Philippine Airlines.

I arrived at MNL, having overnighted after landing from Taipei the previous day, at least three hours early. The line to check in took an hour to get through. They announced a gate change five minutes before boarding and mine wasn’t the only gate change…I must have heard four others announced before it happened to me. The seats were slimline. There was advertising on the overhead compartments. Everything was for sale…even the water.

I had to repack my carry on to make it smaller out of a fear that they’d force me to check it (normally I take my rollerboard on the plane with me but that’s impossible to do with Cebu unless you pay for it). You have to make sure you have your baggage allowance paid for. The resort did that for me but you’d have to do it.

If this is what Asian LCC flying is like, consider me not a fan. I suspect Air Asia is probably better but I’ve never flown them (and don’t intend to if I can help it)

The only thing I won’t fault Cebu for is the fog in the cabin prior to take off. I’d never seen that phenomenon before flying in the South Pacific but I have read about it happening occasionally in the the more humidity challenged parts of the U.S. It was weird. It looked like we were being gassed.

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James

Jan 2, 2019 at 8:48 am

Miles: 18,132
Segments: 7
New Aircraft: none
Most Common aircraft: A321/A319
New Airlines: TAP, Jet Blue, Turkish
Most Common: Three tied at 2
Most Common Airport: SFO
New Airports: IST,BCN,MAD,LIS
Longest Interval Airport: MSY, not since 1985
No repeated routes — indeed every route was new life.
Seats: 6 aisle, 1 window; 2 first, 5 business

https://my.flightmemory.com/CACondor

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Alaska Sean

Jan 2, 2019 at 9:43 am

Miles: 37,461 (17,122 last year)
Segments: 46 (29 last year)
New Aircraft: E175
New Airlines: none
New Airports: JNU, SFO, SNA, PSP, ABQ, BOS
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 (22 flights)
Most Common Airline: Alaska (46 segments)
Most Common Airport: Anchorage (17 departures / 17 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: ANC-ADQ (21 segments), ANC-SEA (7 segments)

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Mike

Jan 2, 2019 at 5:25 pm

Is Hawiai considered North America?

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Michael G

Jan 2, 2019 at 8:39 pm

Total Miles: 7,344
Segments: 6
Countries: 1
New Airports: None
New Aircraft: ERJ170
New Airlines: None
Most Common Aircraft: 737-800 – 3 Segments
Most Common Airline: United – 3 segments
Most Common Airport: EWR
Shortest Flight: 529 miles EWR-CLT
Longest Flight: 2176 miles PHL-LAS

Miles and segments at lows that rival when when I was in college, not looking to get much better going forward.

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Halders1

Jan 4, 2019 at 9:33 am

Miles: 193,598
Segments: 131
New Aircraft Type: None
Most Common Aircraft Type: Either A320 or CSeries / A220
New Airlines: Middle East Airlines, Adria, Cathay Dragon, Air India
Most Common Airline: Swiss
Most Common Airport: Geneva
New Airports: Delhi, Kiev, Shanghai, Skopje, Guatemala City, Accra, Prague

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JohnD

Jan 6, 2019 at 6:05 am

Somewhat slow year –

Miles: 227,100 (283,619 last year)
Segments: 133 (146 last year)
New Aircraft: A380
New Airlines: Asiana
New Airports: KOA,EDI
Most Common Aircraft: 737-700 and 737-800 (3 flights each)
Most Common Airline: Delta (123 segments)
Most Common Airport: Atlanta (45 departures/45 arrivals)
Most Common Non-Directional Route: AGS-ATL
New things this year:
Discovered that Delta is not offering free upgrades to Premium Select, which is replacing Economy Comfort on international flights on A350, 777, and soon to be all aircraft (Thanks for your loyalty, too, Delta!)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=ags-atl-lax-koa;ags-atl-bwi;atl-dtw-pek-icn-atl;atl-tys;atl-ind;atl-slc-ida;atl-dca-jfk-acc-abv-fra-atl;atl-muc;myr-atl;atl-eyw;atl-sea-pek;atl-phl;atl-bwi-dca-atl;atl-ams-acc;bna-atl;atl-cdg-abv;atl-jfk-edi-ams-svo-ala-icn-jfk;atl-mco;atl-yul

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Greg Mermel

Jan 7, 2019 at 12:17 pm

Miles: 24,718
Segments: 17
New AC: B788, E175, B744Combi
New AC I don’t want to fly again: AA’s 788 business
New AC (and seat) I really want to fly again: KLM’s 744 combi, the solo seat in business right behind the radome.
New airlines: KLM, Vueling
New airports: XRY (Jerez), AGP (Malaga), BIO (Bilbao), BRU (Brussels)
Most common aircraft: 737-700. Seven segments, I think; WN may have used an -800 on one of them.
Most common airline: WN
Most common airport: none, unless you count my home airport of MDW. All of the destinations were one-offs.
Longest flight: BCN-ORD, 4,419 sm
Shortest flight: AMS-BRU, 98 sm. This might qualify for the shortest route regularly flown by a 737.

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Eric

Jan 25, 2019 at 7:52 pm

Miles: 14,225 (new personal record for yearly mileage)
Segments: 20
Most Common Airline: Southwest (12)
New Airlines: Boutique Air
New Airports: DAL, MCI, MKE, OKC, CDR (Chadron, Nebraska)

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